17/24 "Why are you thinking of the child," he asked, "at such a time as this ?" She replied without returning or looking round; distrust of herself had inspired her with terror of Linley, from the time when the bracelet had dropped on the grass. "We must see each other no more. I must say good-by to Kitty--I must go. Help me to submit to my hard lot--I must go." He set her no example of resignation; he shrank from the prospect that she presented to him. Help me with your interest; have me sent to the new world in the west, with other emigrants. |